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Stan Suggests a Good Cost-Cutting Idea

Give us some ideas StanHow can we save on costsProducing our top biscuits andNo buyers being lost?…. We like it Stan ….. great idea Your Slop Slurp soup…..| Yes?….. Half-fill the can…. Ingenious…. Come and work for us….. Don MatthewsApril 2021

Tupperware Party

I’ve just received an inviteTuxedo I must dressA Tupperware-themed partyTo which I have said yes RSVP Buckingham Palace Don MatthewsApril 2021

FCS Daily Music Video – ‘All You Need Is Love’ MercyMe

My drinking buddy Skip’s a great fan of MercyMe. So much so I’ve put him in charge of this department Don MatthewsApril 2021

From the FCS Book of Questions Needing Answers

If Cholmondeley is pronounced Chumleywhy isn’t Bottomley pronounced Bumley?

I Need to Paint the Ceiling

I need to paint the ceilingA ladder I’ve not gotSo thought I’d compromiseAnd use just what I’ve got…. Don MatthewsApril 2021

The Abandoned Randall Park Mall

I used to be alive oncePeople all aroundNow I’m dead, quiet, emptyNot a single sound Don MatthewsApril 2021

FCS Daily Music Video – ‘Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder)’ Playing For Change

Playing For Change was founded in 2002 by Mark Johnson and Whitney Kroenke. Producers Johnson and Enzo Buono traveled around the world to places including New Orleans, Barcelona, South Africa, India, Nepal, the Middle East and Ireland. Using mobile recording equipment, the duo recorded local musicians performing the same song, interpreted in their own style. Don MatthewsFebruary 2021

Robert Crosbie

“If you love someoneyou can forgive anything” Robert CrosbieTheosophist1849 – 1919

Stan Does Some Electrical Work Over the Lake

I had to reach the wiresStringing ‘cross the lakeThought up the bestest pathwayPathway I should take…. Don MatthewsApril 2021